Something similar is probably possible, but things like money will never go away so long as there are limited resources and demand for those resources. True post scarcity cannot exist. I suspect with the right manufacturing technologies and governmental systems we could come close though, much like the Venus Project.

AI might be needed for such a society to come into existence. The whole system would need to be automated and to automate such a complex system would require some hefty AI.

AI+quantum computing? Do you think we could establish some safeguards with AI to keep it in line with general ethics? I remember you and I were talking about how AI could see things from an entirely different perspective than we do.

Koerner Enterprise overhauls. Redrew the bussard collector as I wasn't a fan on how it looked in SE but I wanted it to remain accurate in color and design to Wiley's original texture. I have tweaked colors, emis glows, and specular maps so the ship looks a bit cleaner and has more depth in SE.

Fixed orbit ESD with experimental docking, won't be adding it to other ships or bothering with it. It takes way too much effort to add ports and adjust, would require many hours to add to other ships.

This will be something for much later versions of SE when these mechanics are more refined, but it does give a nice sneak peak at what should be possible in the future

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If you speed up time they will drift away, but for slow gameplay parking a ship is relatively easy.

Added 3 drydocks with similar settings as ESD. They are all Sovereign docks, 1 standard Sovereign, 1 smaller and wider, and 1 much wider for ships like Galaxy class and Odyssey class. Would be better with more specific docks, but these are fine for testing.